MrSilverMaC

Well.. I don’t know that he wouldn’t approve. But, I wouldn’t be so bold as to speak for the mother****er.

Yes. And yet, somehow I think Samuel L Jackson would approve of the joke, though I’m not quite sure why.

Saying china builds their own stuff as if it was Chinese-conceived/designed is misleading. The stuff that they build in-house is mostly russian knock-offs with a smattering of stuff they’ve stolen from us. There are still plenty of russian-made sukhois in their Air Force and would likely be the work horse for them in any conflict. I have serious doubts that China has developed any of their air-to-air weapons and that those are all directly sourced/copied from russia especially given how many sukhois they field. While they are working on their own engines they’ve been unsuccessful for a while and still rely on underpowered russian tech which is the basis for their own attempts and are what power stuff like the chengdu. Their primary infantry rifle is a kalashnikov variant still using 7.62 x 39. It does look like they have been making their own tanks for a while and have taken what they think works from a bunch of different sources, but I wouldn’t expect them to hold up well against Western anti-tank weapons. I couldn’t speak to their navy, though I know they’ve recently completed their first aircraft carrier. I would say given those facts, our ability to project force, and that air power has been the deciding factor in almost every modern battle my guess that their sudden reduction in acting tough after watching the originator of most of the tech/equipment their military would use in any war against us/the West is probably not far from the truth. Watching russia lose more than 200 jets, 2k tanks, and 60k troops in 8 months against a military hastily given Western weaponry can’t inspire them with any confidence in going against the originator of that weaponry and a military that has trained and built its doctrine/tactics around that weaponry and has recent extensive experience.

I mentioned that a couple of months ago. I think that’s why china stopped their saber rattling. They got loud after pelosi’s visit to Taiwan then all of a sudden calmed down as Ukraine started to prevail. Apparently North Korea hasn’t figured it out yet, though. This is grim to say but I guess if you’re just a warlord in Asia, Africa, or South America and all you’re doing is slaughtering unarmed civilians, russian stuff is good enough, so there is a market for their weapons. Any country seriously thinking about protecting itself from another military power would have to look elsewhere.

Should have put sunflower seeds in their pockets like the old lady told them at the beginning of the invasion.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. If no one bothers to counter the lies from the right that narrative will be taken as truth. Truth and facts matter.

Maricopa is actually easily and hilariously explained. trump’s tax cut spitefully removed a tax deduction that residents of n.y and ca residents used as a way of attacking the two states that were a huge thorn in his side. There has been an exodus from California because of that. a lot of residents from there have gone to Florida and Texas, but a lot of them have also moved to phoenix. Pima (Tucson) and Coconino (Flagstaff) are solidly and reliably blue but have historically been unable to counterbalance maricopa. Trump unintentionally diluted maricopa by forcing poorer/bluer leaning Californians to move to phoenix and its surrounding municipalities. He took a solidly red county and turned it close enough to purple that between the demographics shift due to the influx and trumps’s general repulsiveness Arizona elected “2” democrat senators (**** sinema) and lost the state himself due his own short sightedness and karma. https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-trump-tax-california-20170927-story.html Trump lost without any help because he’s a hateful moron who drove a record amount of Americans to correct the mistake of him being elected 4 years earlier.

Actually I think you want state. Fed time, from the people I’ve known in both, is supposed to be a lot easier. you want trump in sing sing or San Quentin for that legit “pound me in the ass” experience.

Some context for the tweet above: Link to AP story Russia hits power stations after Ukraine counteroffensive KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure Sunday, causing widespread outages across Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces pressed a swift counteroffensive that has driven Moscow’s troops from swaths of territory it had occupied in the northeast. The bombardment ignited a massive fire at a power station on Kharkiv’s western outskirts and killed at least one person. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the “deliberate and cynical missile strikes” against civilian targets as acts of terrorism. Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv appeared to be without power Sunday night. Cars drove through darkened streets, and the few pedestrians used flashlights or mobile phones to light their way. Separately, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the Russia-occupied south completely shut down in a bid to prevent a radiation disaster as fighting raged nearby. Kyiv’s action in recent days to reclaim Russia-occupied areas in the Kharkiv region forced Moscow to withdraw its troops to prevent them from being surrounded, leaving behind significant numbers of weapons and munitions in a hasty flight as the war marked its 200th day on Sunday. Ukraine’s military chief, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyy, said its forces had recaptured about 3,000 square kilometers (1,160 square miles) since the counteroffensive began in early September. He said Ukrainian troops are only 50 kilometers (about 30 miles) from the Russian border.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/11/kharkiv-liberated-retreat-izyum-russia/ Amid Ukraine’s startling gains, liberated villages describe Russian troops dropping rifles and fleeing ZALIZNYCHNE, Ukraine — In the end, the Russians fled any way they could on Friday, on stolen bicycles, disguised as locals, abandoned by their units. Hours after Ukrainian soldiers poured into the area, hundreds of Russian soldiers encamped in this village were gone, leaving behind stunned residents to face the ruins of 28 weeks of occupation. “They just dropped rifles on the ground,” Olena Matvienko said Sunday as she stood, still disoriented, in a village littered with ammo crates and torched vehicles, including a Russian tank loaded on a flatbed. The first investigators from Kharkiv had just pulled in to collect the bodies of civilians shot by Russians, some that have been lying exposed for months. “I can’t believe that we went through something like this in the 21st century,” Matvienko said, tears welling. The hasty flight of Russians from the village was part of a stunning new reality that took the world by surprise over the weekend: The invaders of February are on the run in some parts of Ukraine they seized early in the conflict. On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that Russian forces had retreated from the Balakliya and Izyum area in the Kharkiv region, saying a decision was taken to “regroup.” On Sunday, Ukraine’s commander in chief, Valery Zaluzhny, said Ukrainian forces had retaken more than 3,000 square kilometers (1,864 miles) of territory, a claim that could not be independently verified, adding that they were advancing to the east, south and north. “Ukrainian forces have penetrated Russian lines to a depth of up to 70 kilometers in some places,” reported the Institute for the Study of War, which closely tracks the conflict. They have captured more territory in the past five days “than Russian forces have captured in all their operations since April,” its campaign assessment posted Sunday said. more at link.

A little satire for a serious situation: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-says-he-is-losing-war-in-ukraine-because-fbi-seized-stuff-he-needed/amp

I typed a long post and deleted it because I can’t adequately/eloquently say what I want to add to this, so here is a much shorter version: The military is just one aspect. Law enforcement, federal and local, skews very right/authoritarian. Probably quite a bit more than the military. I’m not sure the math works out in favor of democracy or preserving America in the case of civil war. We would need a significant amount of assistance from our allies

**** fired, they need to investigate her. Trying to incentivize and threaten a 14 y.o to become a prostitute makes me very suspicious that she might be into trafficking. They need to look at her past clients and see if there is a pattern of her clients becoming sex workers or disappearing.

No mention of Kraft getting jacked by putin?

An ending you’d roll your eyes at if it were in a movie, happening for real in Hollywood. Even people that hate the dodgers loved Scully. Rest in peace and see if maybe you can’t talk the big guy into a few more WS this decade. 😁 Off topic, but it’s awesome as a Dodgers and Skins fan that I have the Gibson home run and 70 chip to look back at and enjoy.

“They was touched” - ABC 3

Not necessarily completely off topic: USAF decides to flex a little. Apparently this ad is meant to run during the pre-movie adverts for the new top gun. I’m interested in seeing if the russians make any comment.

I’m sure his wife appreciated it.

I hope you feel better soon, brotha.

Did an adult actually make that threat? What is it about despots and their ministers that inspires them to make the dumbest ****ing threats? It’s like they take words they think are scary, throw them in a hat, and pull them out at random to generate impromptu threats. It’s the kind of stuff you over hear 1st graders say to each other. vladamir puto has managed to turn russia into basically the military equivalent of Pakistan. They’re going to bully the neighbors they can, and engage in terrorism to make up for the reach they don’t have while relying on their nukes to keep their more powerful neighbors from thumping them. They’re what Iran would be if they had nukes. They had no money to modernize their military when stuff was going ok for them, and that was aside from the corruption. They definitely don’t have the money to build stuff from scratch. They have no money for tanks, let alone jets and cruisers. Their only aircraft carrier isn’t slated to return to service until 2023. That **** ain’t happening anymore. They’re going to have to sell it to china. And that’s all before you factor in the material they don’t have and can’t make themselves that no one will sell them. The clock is ticking down to the moment someone invents the ability to negate their nuclear arsenal and make them almost completely irrelevant.

It’s ridiculous for anyone in Ireland to argue that diplomacy is the only answer. As if the British just left Ireland when they were asked to and the IRA wasn’t a thing for most of the 20th century.

I can’t even come up with a sarcastic enough response to “you better not join NATO!” It’s like russia has a masochist fetish and is dying to meet the dude that is willing to smack them around like they mean it.

An article from cnn was posted yesterday of an 8 mile long convoy headed to Kharkiv. I realize I want russia to take a pounding and am biased, but it doesn’t seem like Ukraine has really been guilty of over-inflating numbers as far as I’ve seen. The orcs haven’t seemed to be overly cautious or well prepared up to this point, so I’m not inclined to disbelieve it out of hand even if I still want to see proof before I celebrate it. Even if the number is a quarter to half, it’s still amazing. I’m hoping to see some corroboration from a solid source soon.